Die-hard Overclocking & Case Modifications Want to overclock that processor, videocard or even mainboard ? Wanna tweak the best out of your piece of hardware or have the means to design a killer case ? Get in here and pimp that rig man.

Thanks to Parvum I'm back again for another build. 2 Projects in one year cant be a bad thing

Parvum saw my ROTM winning build based on a custom S2.0 they produced for me and asked if I'd be interesting in testing out their unreleased, but forthcoming mini ITX case... how could I refuse!

Thanks to Parvum for the support. For those of you who dont know them, they are a small UK based company (2 people!) specialising in acrylic cases that are extremely mod-able and based on community feedback. Their current case, the mATX S2.0 can be bought here in the UK via OCUK. Those outside the UK would do well to contact them directly via their website:

Thanks guys. More updates through the week as I get all the hardware together.

@ CPC — unfortunately the Pentium is dual core only. Guess you can't complain too much as £45 for an unlocked CPU is pretty good. They overclock very well from what I have seen. It does remind me of my old processors from 10 years ago when I could only afford £50 on a CPU and had to o/c to get the performance I needed at the time.

The PSU looks great. Silverstone are pretty much the only choice right now if you need a decent SFX PSU - the choice is very limited. Having said that I'm impressed with it. Can't believe they got a full modular PSU to such a small size!

Annoyingly I missed the delivery guy today, so rather than testing all the components I thought id test fit the mobo and measure up ready to start thinking about how to Watercool in such a tight space.

The case design has clearly been well thought through:

Plenty of clearence for the thickest 120mm rads + fan, maybe even push pull too. Just about 110mm between the midwall edge and front of the case here:

GPU clearence is also pretty reasonable for such a small case. The case measures 290mm wide, so most high end GPU's should fit (for reference an R9 290x is 278mm long):

Cable management options look good. I was slightly concerned about the positioning of some of the connectors on the board, but the cable holes in the midwall align almost perfectly with the ATX connecter & SATA ports at the bottom. The top hole should help with PCI-E power. The only one that remains a pain is the placement of the 8 pin CPU power connector, but thats more down to MSI's board design. I should also say, that motherboard will be made to match the overall system colours... the red heatsinks look rather out of place!

Finally, the advantage of the SFX PSU is it leaves a decent amount of space around the back for cable management. I may even consider placing the pump here.

I'm now looking into paracord for the sleeving so I can get started on that rather long job! Any tips welcome regarding heatshrinkless sleeving methods etc!

Interesting build. I like the colors of the case and build around the 20th anniversary Pentium Chip. While that particular 670 makes me kind of nervous with the reference style cooler but maybe it will work well for this particular build considering where it is facing inside of the case.

Ok, getting things ready for the final push to complete the build. Here are some designs to choose from for the build logo.

This will be sprayed on the side of the 120mm rad (which will be white) and possibly somewhere else on the case if I can find a paint that I am confident will adhere to the acrylic without being too easy to scratch off!

Can't take credit for these Alec** (my brother in-law) knocked a whole load of them up and these 3 are the ones I liked the best. Thoughts please!

I think I like the first one best, as it incorporates the parvum symbol around but.

My rather nice white bits power fittings arrived to match the AX120 rad:

Quick Update: DHL are useless! They sent my EK waterblocks to Austria instead of the UK by mistake so they didnt arrive as expected. Apparently they are now in Brussels! Gonna have to try and claim back my priority 1 day shipping grrr.

Anyway, in the mean time I have been painting!

I couldnt leave the motherboard heat sinks red, in a blue case so I did something about it:

And while the paint was drying, I continued my cable braiding marathon! ATX connecter now done, along with a few others (pump cable, power/reset cables etc):